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TYPE OF OCCUPANCY

John Geiger applied 72 categories of purpose to 1,125 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions. Classifications include 18 types of housing, 17 forms of civic buildings including churches, 29 terms for commercial structures, and 7 kinds of site planning, with other categories for decorative accessories, farm buildings, and site improvements. The categories of "Automobile" and "Patent" have been added to include in the results several types of projects not categorized by Geiger.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


House Design, "The House on the Mesa", project [Denver, Colorado] (1931)

Drawing: First floor plan

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3102.008

Note: Drawing number assignments shown without question marks are compliant with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives drawing inventory as of 2011. Drawing number assignments with question marks may represent attempts by John Geiger to order chronologically Wright project drawings which appeared in publications or are held in other collections within the master sequence of the Wright Archives inventory.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Reprographic print, blueline.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 202, page 198] in Sweeney, Robert L., Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture (Princeton, New Jersey: MIT Press, 1994). Note by John Geiger: Sweeney gives the drawing #.006 which is a perspective.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 171, page 99] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1924-1935 (Volume 5) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).

Appears as a color illustration [page 209] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a color illustration [page 222] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932 (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).